The New Inn Hotel, Lechlade

Little has changed in the years since Steve's review. Three handpumps offered a diet of Sharp's Doom Bar or Timothy Taylor Landlord with a third stump unclipped. (Landlord £2 a half and good).

This impressive 17th Century red brick Georgian coaching inn primarily functions as a hotel and upmarket restaurant, but does have a bar which is open to the public, as is the restaurant. It also has the benefit of a large outside garden that extends down to River Thames where moorings are apparently available. The Hotel bar certainly has some classic period details with the very large stone fireplace as one of them. There are still two ale hand pumps as mentioned below and for our visit these were Directors and the ubiquitous Doombar. Fortunately that didn’t matter too much as we had primarily come here for a bite to eat as a sensibly priced bar menu is also available, and I had been promised a post lunch trip to one of the brew pubs in town if I behaved myself in here.

The New Inn is a large looking pub in the centre of Lechlade. Once inside there was one well furnished room which was very comfortable and there was also a seperate restaurant the pub also operates as an hotel. There were two real ales on here i had a drink of Archers Best and this was a decent drink the other beer was Morland Original. pub visited 8/7/2006